Hugo Kunz (painter)

Hugo Kunz (born March 10, 1884 in Mainz , † December 18, 1938 in Munich ) was a German painter and etcher .

Life

Hugo Kunz studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 1909 to 1911 . His teachers were Peter von Halm and Hugo von Habermann . As a painter, he mainly created portraits and expressionist landscapes and, as a member of the Munich Secession , his work was represented at their exhibitions and at the art exhibitions in the Munich Glass Palace .

The magazine Jugend published some of his works on their covers.

After the artist's early death, a commemorative exhibition was held in 1941 on Mathildenhöhe in Darmstadt .

Hugo Kunz was a member of the Schlaraffia Association .

Works

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  Portrait of Ruth Schaumann

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  On the beach at Hiddensee

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  Saint Sebastian

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  Etching Gothic Madonna

literature

• Kunz, Hugo . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 22 : Krügner – Leitch . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1928, p. 114 .
• Kunz, Hugo . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 139 .
• Erna von Langsdorff: Hugo Kunz in memory. Hohmann, Darmstadt 1941.
• Hugo Kunz . In: Anniversary exhibition Ludwig von Hofmann and Adolf Beyer, commemorative exhibition Hugo Kunz. (illustrated catalog) October 4 to November 23, 1941. Hohmann, Darmstadt 1941, p. 19-22 , doi : 10.11588 / diglit.24128 ( uni-heidelberg.de , uni-heidelberg.de - With works, a portrait of the artist and some works [ Damenbildnis , Young Woman in Spring Landscape , Portrait of a Woman and Reading boy ]).

Web links

• Entry in the register of the Munich Academy of Arts
• Works by Hugo Kunz for the magazine Jugend